[Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville]@TWC D-Link bookOmoo: Adventures in the South Seas CHAPTER L 1/5
CHAPTER L. SOMETHING HAPPENS TO LONG GHOST WE will now return to the narrative. The day before the Julia sailed, Dr.Johnson paid his last call.
He was not quite so bland as usual.
All he wanted was the men's names to a paper, certifying to their having received from him sundry medicaments therein mentioned.
This voucher, endorsed by Captain Guy, secured his pay.
But he would not have obtained for it the sailors' signs manual, had either the doctor or myself been present at the time. Now, my long friend wasted no love upon Johnson; but, for reasons of his own, hated him heartily: all the same thing in one sense; for either passion argues an object deserving thereof.
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